[Eril-l] EBSCO eBooks- has anyone disabled checkouts for ease of use?

[Lynn Parliman]

Hi all,

We recently reviewed some of our ebook settings. Our testing revealed that
even though we set 1SU ebook checkout to NO, we were still able to check it
out.
EBSCO confirmed this is an open issue. I would contact them to get added to
the list requesting this be fixed soon!
In addition, EBSCO's help documentation is not consistent for this topic.
Just terrible!
Thanks

Lynn Parliman MBA MLIS
Head - Serials & Electronic Resources
Fordham University Libraries
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Bronx, New York 10458
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:43 AM Ray, Emily <emily.ray at unf.edu> wrote:

> Hi James,
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> I think “Allow Offline (Downlaod Checkout of 1B1U Titles set to “No.” -
> will prevent a user from “downloading” the ebook and keeping everyone else
> from using it until the checkout period expires for 1 user ebooks.
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> I think “Allow Download Outside eBook Viewer” is that sometimes you can
> “download” ebscohost ebooks without the Adobe acrobat reader device- but
> I’m not entirely sure.
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> I usually check w/ ebsco support about what is possible with the settings,
> and I’m not 100% what I’m saying is accurate.
>
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> Emily Ray
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> Electronic Resources Librarian
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> Thomas G. Carpenter Library
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> University of North Florida
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> emily.ray at unf.edu
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> 904-620-5673
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> *From:* Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> *On Behalf Of *James C.
> Miller
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 19, 2020 10:31 AM
> *To:* eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Subject:* [Eril-l] EBSCO eBooks- has anyone disabled checkouts for ease
> of use?
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> Hi ER folks,
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> A little background, I and most others (students/faculty) find the EBSCO
> eBook interface poor, confusing, and frustrating.
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> Instead of encouraging students to check out/download the entire eBook in
> EBSCO, I often tell users to just go through the table of contents and find
> what they need and download/print/save from there.
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> Recently a single use eBook was assigned to a class as a textbook. One of
> the students checked out the entire book so it was inaccessible to others.
> I realized this would not have happened if the book wasn't available to
> check out.
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> Can you set up EBSCO eBooks so that you can download sections via the
> table of contents only? I see a section in the admin back end that gives
> the option "Allow Download Outside eBook Viewer" YES or NO
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> Has anyone experimented with this? If I select NO, will users still be
> able to access sections of the book via the table of contents?
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> Thanks,
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> James
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